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Epsom & St Helier, the plot sickens

The Wimbledon Guardian have today run a front page article about the threat to St Helier, but recent developments have been a little confusing. For clarity, we have put together a brief timeline of events over the last year or so.   In January 2015, Daniel Elkeles started work at Epsom & St Helier Trust, as […]

The truth can be scary

KOSHH Campaigner, Georgia Lewis shares her thoughts on scaremongering: “You’re scaremongering!” It is a common accusation when you are campaigning to save your local hospital and, indeed, the wider NHS. The “scaremongering” accusation is often used to either try and shut a discussion down or as a way of sticking fingers in ears and burying […]

Guest Article: Your Junior Doctors

This is once in a generation fight, if we lose, there will be no NHS for the next. Junior doctor, and friend of KOSHH, Dr Ruhe Chowdhury is a member of a new organisation called “Your Junior Doctors”. They have launched a campaign, aimed at getting information out about the junior doctors’ contract negotiation. They have […]

Video: Friend of KOSHH on TV to discuss the TTIP

If you have already heard of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, well done – this enormous deal between the USA and the EU has been veiled in secrecy, and the mainstream media have done very little to inform the public about it. The TTIP, if passed as it stands, would be the most […]

Press: KOSHH in the news, A&E waiting time targets.

The Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust have missed the government target for A&E waiting times every month since August 2015. Until recently, the government target for the percentage of A&E patients to be seen within 4 hours was 98%, but in June 2010, the Con-Dem government relaxed this target to 95%. There are a number […]

What’s really at stake with the junior doctors contract?

Junior doctor, friend, and supporter of KOSHH, Aislinn Macklin-Doherty has written the following piece about the junior doctors’ contract, and how the struggle is about so much more. Crowning Glory The NHS is one of Britain’s greatest crowning glories in history, if not the greatest. Britain demonstrated to the world that it is possible for […]

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